Seems the price tag for a big dog is now $1.5 million minimum. We've swung and missed on several apparently.
Is anyone good friends with Buffett? We need that guy to get on board yesterday.
So why hasn’t Nebraska been able to land those difference-makers in the portal? The market is just too rich. “Why have we struggled to get transfer portal offensive linemen to come in?” Carriker asked. “Because we’ve been trying to get them.” Callahan is laying out just how steep the price tag is. “Call the elite tackles in the portal the ‘Unicorn tackles,’” per him. “And the market on those players is at least a million and a half for each of these guys, and it’s pushing $2 million now for some of them. So the amount of money it takes to get one of those six to eight unicorns is significant. Nebraska hosted three of them this year.” In other words, Nebraska’s efforts weren’t the issue—the financial arms race was.
Is anyone good friends with Buffett? We need that guy to get on board yesterday.
So why hasn’t Nebraska been able to land those difference-makers in the portal? The market is just too rich. “Why have we struggled to get transfer portal offensive linemen to come in?” Carriker asked. “Because we’ve been trying to get them.” Callahan is laying out just how steep the price tag is. “Call the elite tackles in the portal the ‘Unicorn tackles,’” per him. “And the market on those players is at least a million and a half for each of these guys, and it’s pushing $2 million now for some of them. So the amount of money it takes to get one of those six to eight unicorns is significant. Nebraska hosted three of them this year.” In other words, Nebraska’s efforts weren’t the issue—the financial arms race was.
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